STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1168

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 115

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 115 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE HAWAII PAROLING AUTHORITY TO THOROUGHLY CONSIDER GRANTING PAROLE TO CLASS A, CLASS B, AND CLASS C FELONS BEFORE THE EXPIRATION OF THEIR MAXIMUM TERMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Hawaii Paroling Authority to thoroughly consider granting parole to individuals serving sentences for Class A felonies eighteen months before the expiration of their maximum term; individuals serving sentences for Class B felonies twelve months before the expiration of their maximum term; and individuals serving sentences for Class C felonies six months before the expiration of their maximum term.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Community Alliance on Prisons, and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that inmates who are released at the end of their maximum term with no supervision recidivate at a higher rate than inmates placed on parole.  This measure is intended to provide support to long term inmates so that when these individuals are released, they may return to the community as productive, law abiding citizens.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 115 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair